The palace, owned by the city, has housed educational institutions in recent years. Today it is undergoing a restoration that will bring it back to usability.
Palazzo Pinato Valeri, the birthplace of Diego Valeri, a distinguished citizen of Piovese chair of the University of Padua, scholar and poet, overlooks Via Garibaldi.
The building identified in the nineteenth-century historical land registers as the "Casa Grande" (manor house) was home to educational institutions for about a century and a half. The building had a "Venetian" plan with a passing hall illuminated by a beautiful central pentafora. The presence of a building on this site is documented in a drawing from 1726 as a single-story windowed building on the porticoed ground floor.
The most interesting elements of the façade are the trefoil windows on the main floor, with late Gothic-style friezes in sandstone and capitals and columns in Istrian stone, framed in the central polyphora by a denticulated cornice. Elegant fretwork also comprises the marble balustrade. Probably the stone cornices and friezes on this facade come from another medieval building, now destroyed.
The municipal archives preserve a beautiful drawing of the facade (unsigned), whose medieval decorations suggest an ambitious restoration project that was not completed due to lack of funds.
